Teresa Magbanua

Teresa Magbanua (13 October 1868-August 1948) was a Filipino schoolteacher and general during the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine-American War.

Biography
Teresa Magbanua y Ferraris was born in Pototan, Iloilo, Philippines on 13 October 1868, and she became a schoolteacher in Pototan, where she was known to be a disciplinarian. In 1898, she married a wealthy landowner and became a housewife, but she ignored her husband's pleas and joined the Katipunan during the Philippine Revolution and was nicknamed the "Visayan Joan of Arc" for her brave military leadership in an army were women were almost always excluded. On 24 December 1898, she liberated Iloilo City, retaking the city from the Spanish. During the Philippine-American War, she participated in many battles against the United States, retaking Jaro after the Battle of Balantang. After Santa Barbara fell to the Americans, she resorted to guerrilla tactics, and she was ultimately forced to surrender in 1900. She then returned to farming, and she made financial contributions to Filipino guerrillas resisting the Japanese occupation during World War II. She died in Pagadian, Zamboanga in 1948 at the age of 78.